Book Review-‘Admirals of the Fleet and Admirals: Volume 1 ofa biographical dictionary of the twentieth century Royal Navy’ by Alastair Wilso

Abstract

In this essential work of reference Alistair Wilson has provided students of the twentieth-century Royal Navy with a systematic and thorough guide to the careers of 336 full admirals and admirals of the fleet of the twentieth century. This is the first instalment of a five-volume work projected to stretch down to lieutenant commanders and selected lieutenants. Admirals of the Fleet and Admirals is cast in the tradition of William O’Byrne’s A Naval Biographical Dictionary of 1849, which is required reading for students of the early nineteenth-century navy, but has the virtue of representing the key information in tabular form, and avoiding reliance on the entrants compiling their own note…

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Subjects include: Biography